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- Recorded 20-bit - Dolby Surround - Timeline of Renaissance composers on back cover of program booklet - Complete texts of musical selections O Magnum Mysterium' (Oh Great Mystery) begins one of the masterpieces heard on this album, spelling out the spiritual inspiration behind all sacred Renaissance music. 'I think that as our modern lives get more and more noisy and cluttered we yearn for a more peaceful and transcendent world. Perhaps that explains the recent interest in the antique music of the church: the music heard in the old basilicas, cathedrals and monasteries of Europe. 'This particular recording came into being because of the remarkable reaction to the two Renaissance works on our first CD, 'Mysteries Beyond' (formerly 'AveRead more Maria'). Many of our listeners said 'let's have a whole album of Renaissance music'' - Dennis Keene, from the booklet notes Amelia S. Haygood, President and founder of Delos International, has this to say about the title 'Beyond Chant': 'In our 22 years of making classical recordings, we have centered our efforts on presenting American artists and composers to as wide an audience as possible. Of late we have tailored some releases, and sections of program booklets on selected titles, to young people. 'While we were working on this project of Renaissance music with Dennis Keene, whose intense commitment to the highest musical standards is immediately obvious to anyone having even casual contact with his work, the phenomenon of 'crossover,' pop-oriented interest in recordings of Medieval chant was just beginning to cause a stir in the marketplace. 'While our working title for this recording had been 'Mysteries of the Renaissance,' we decided to add a phrase reflecting a topic much discussed during the sessions: the ways in which Renaissance music 'took off' from chant. We discussed how we might lead some of the pop-oriented young who were interested in the meditational aspects of chant to the beauty of the Renaissance, in hopes that they might find some of the solaces they had heretofore experienced in chant. Thus our title became 'Beyond Chant: Mysteries of the Renaissance.'' Read less

Hosanna to the Son of Davidby Orlando Gibbons Conductor:
Dennis Keene
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Voices of Ascension
Period: Renaissance Written: 17th Century; England Date of Recording: 03/1994 Venue: Church of the Ascension, New York City Length: 2 Minutes 17 Secs. Language: English

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